Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by Stanley Baldwin are the Party in the United Kingdom least sympathetic to the League of Nations. A nationwide peace ballot proved last summer that at least 11,000,000 British voters are highly sympathetic to the League. When as Prime Minister it became Stanley Baldwin's object to win the General Election, his outstanding campaign move was to convince the electorate that the Baldwin Cabinet and the Conservative Party had become highly sympathetic to the League. They had not only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they won the election they...
...object was to raise the price of silver. Under that law the U. S. bought silver, 704,831,000 oz. of it up to last week, and the price rose from 25? per oz. in 1933 to more than 65? an oz. early last week. As the price of silver mounted all the world began to sell silver to the U. S. China alone of all countries was on a silver standard...
...expedition, we did not get to the top of a single peak, for our sole object was to locate the mountains. Some of these peaks are the most impregnable I've ever seen, and one as yet unnamed peak, over 14,000 feet high, had one absolutely vertical cliff 6000 feet high. If they ever try to climb some of these, I hope I'm not around...
...modern times, claimed Dr. Temple, the tasks of the Church are well defined. "Its main task is to be itself, that is, to be a fellowship of those who worship God in Christ. Since worship means the submission of the whole being to the object of worship and since ordinary methods are inadequate, true worship can only be attained through groups as stimulated in churches...
...earliest known reproductions of the Eucharist, in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, give it exactly the form of this cup. Christians in 75 A. D. were already numerous but very poor. The outer cup must have cost a great deal of money which would only be spent on an object of the greatest religious importance. ¶ Though, the outer cup was gilded twice to preserve it, the silver of the crude inner cup was never touched. ¶ The faces of Christ and the Apostles are certainly portraits, not conventionalized types. Dr. Eisen has devoted pages of documented research...